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Each August since 1998, Beloit College has released the Beloit College Mindset List, providing a look at the cultural touchstones that shape the lives of students entering college this fall.
The Beloit College Mindset List, which this year is as old as the entering students themselves, is created by Ron Nief, Emeritus Director of Public Affairs; Tom McBride, Emeritus Professor of English; and Charles Westerberg. Additional items on the list as well as commentaries and guides are found
here and at www.themindsetlist.com Regular updates and discussions are on Facebook and Twitter.
Previous lists are available online dating back to the Class of 2002.
Among the 50 entries I found it interesting that, from their perspective, there's always been Google, South Park, and mass-produced hybrid vehicles. What is/are your favorite(s) and why? What did they leave out?
(Score: 2, Disagree) by Flyingmoose on Thursday August 20 2015, @09:01PM
They have always had access to legal abortion (in the US), which is in my mind not a good thing but that's my sense of morality talking
The Republican party has always been dominated by neo-con, semi-fascist idiots
Hypocrite much?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2015, @12:05AM
Or just self-aware.
(Score: 2) by mendax on Friday August 21 2015, @05:41AM
Not at all. I find the practice of abortion to be abhorrent, but that does not make me a neo-con or a semi-fascist idiot. It's not an "all or nothing" thing. You won't find me standing in front of an abortion clinic carrying gory pictures of aborted fetuses. But I won't shed any tears if it is banned in the United States either.
But then, perhaps I am a hypocrite in a way. There is an abortion in my past, about 15 years ago when my girlfriend and I were playing Catholic roulette and we lost. I paid for an abortion and it was done, but my views on abortion were different then than they are now. I'm older and wiser now, I've come to realize just how awful and immoral the practice of abortion is, and I deeply regret the decision we made to end the pregnancy. But I recognize that this is a, in the end, a personal decision to be made by the woman and her partner and I feel I should not impose my beliefs upon them.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.